Saturday, January 17, 2015

RNC trims 2016 presidential debates to nine...

Fox gets three (two on Fox News, one on Fox Business), CNN gets two,
and CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNBC get one apiece. MSNBC gets some magic beans.
Of note: The NBC debate will be co-sponsored by Telemundo and will be
held in Florida in February 2016, shortly before the primary. If Jeb
Bush is still in the race by then, that’s his time to shine. Lotttt of
pressure on McConnell and Boehner, meanwhile, to do something on
immigration reform by then so that the remaining GOP candidates have
something to tout to Latino voters tuning in.
If this seems like conspicuously fewer debates than we’re used to
after the last two presidential cycles, that’s because it is. And
there’s a reason for it.